Word: anguishingly
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...unphilosophical Buddha, as is seen when Jâli forsakes his willow tree and, in hot pursuit, takes passage to the U. S. Lunch with Rosemary at Sherry's ends in catastrophe when the people at the next table object to "the colored man." Jâli in anguish escapes to San Francisco Chinatown, where an ancient watchmaker mumbles his philosophy of resignation and indifference. Comforted by the old Chinaman, disgusted with the Occident, Jâli returns to the pomp and ceremony of coronation in Karastra...
...their president. It was at their reiterated request (TIME, Nov. 28, Dec. 5) that Secretary Davis had issued his invitations. With some 100,000 members on unsuccessful strike since last spring in bituminous Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, the United Mine workers had passed from anger to anxiety to anguish...
Spellbound. Imagination, seed of woe, flowers into tragedy or pathos, according to the ground it falls on. In Spellbound, it has fallen on a London shopgirl. A pathetic play is the result. Yet so artfully is this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...
Former enemy peoples gave no thought to the occasion, made no beau geste to the memory of the millions they killed and maimed, showed no contriteness for the anguish and sufferings they caused to tens of millions of people throughout the length and breadth of the world. Neither did they heed the ninth anniversary of the end of their own Wartime sufferings; the bitterness of defeat lay heavily upon them...
...court was moved to anguish; it was announced that President Hernando Siles would be asked for a pardon...